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Friday, April 3, 2009

The original green wall

This is the original green wall - not a 20-foot-high panel expertly planted with tropicals in the atrium of a corporate HQ, like Dansko, which is profiled in the paper's Home & Design section today. This one dates to the 1920s. It's the rock wall garden at Morris Arboretum. Six feet high, planted with alpines, it's in the rose garden, which is just about to burst open. The wall is already blooming. When I visited, there was a little fog, an empty bench. Perfect atmospherics.

If you'd like to read more about Dansko's wall, and other kinds of green walls, go to http://www.philly.com/inquirer/living/
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About Virginia A. Smith
Ginny Smith, a Philadelphia native, worked as a reporter at newspapers in New York, Connecticut and Ohio – with six short months at the end of the Bulletin tossed in – before returning to Philadelphia in 1985 to join the Inquirer. Her favorite beats here have included Center City, roving around Pennsylvania (and getting paid for it!) and alternative medicine. She’s also been City Editor and Pennsylvania Editor. Ginny has been happily writing – and learning - about gardening fulltime since 2006. She’s won two silver medals of achievement from the national Garden Writers Association and in 2011, Bartram’s Garden honored her with its Green Exemplar award for her stories about “the region’s deeply rooted horticultural history, cultural attractions and bountiful gardens.”
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